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of driving (or running), President Polk through the city, 

 on the occasion of his visit here in 1847. 



Before the incorporation of the Salem and Boston 

 Stage Co., in 1821, a line of stages had been run by Mr. 

 Richard Manning, and afterwards by his sons, William, 

 Robert and Samuel, and in 1810 or 1811 the Mannings 

 bought out the old Burrill line of stages. The Burrill 

 stables were in the rear of Court (now Washington 

 Street), and their office was in the rear of where Nourse's 

 fruit store now stands. 



In 1815 or 1816 a company was formed of the Messrs. 

 Manning, Henry Cross and others. Holton Dale, who 

 will be remembered by many as the greatest whip in the 

 county, drove the first coach out at 7 o'clock A. M., and 

 Willis, a large and splendid looking man, drove the first 

 coach in from Boston, and afterwards Carpenter. Dale 

 always had elegant horses ; his team of sorrels were 

 square docked, and always trimmed and combed to a hair ; 

 his coach in order, and run very still, as about every 

 morning he went over it himself, and screwed up all the 

 nuts. Those who were in college from, say 1810 to 

 1816 will remember Dale, as he claimed as a right the 

 privilege of driving home the students at the vacations. 



Instead of his coach he sometimes used an open basket 

 carriage which would hold fifteen or eighteen — but as 

 there was no convenience for baggage, that had to be 

 sent by another team. With the light basket carriage he 

 could spin oft* ten or twelve miles the hour, and land his 

 passengers from Cambridge, say seventeen or eighteen 

 miles, in an hour and thirty or forty minutes. 



Once, about Christmas time, after he had started, there 

 came up a furious snow storm, and by the time they 

 reached Salem the basket was full of snow and students 

 closely packed together. 



